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208 voters
Skeptic Books
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,085 ratings — published 1995
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.90 — 284,747 ratings — published 2006
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.86 — 9,997 ratings — published 1997
Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,055 ratings — published 1982
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.96 — 113,302 ratings — published 2007
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,588 ratings — published 2008
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,029 ratings — published 2008
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,515 ratings — published 1999
The Faith Healers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.20 — 845 ratings — published 1987
The Truth About Uri Geller (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.93 — 385 ratings — published 1975
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.95 — 602 ratings — published 1995
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,029 ratings — published 2010
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.00 — 22,507 ratings — published 1957
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,907 ratings — published 2018
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,552 ratings — published 2013
Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine (Vitamins, Supplements, and All Things Natural: A Look Behind the Curtain)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,134 ratings — published 2013
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,817 ratings — published 2004
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.17 — 597,043 ratings — published 2011
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,667 ratings — published 2011
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.89 — 43,611 ratings — published 2004
Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,740 ratings — published 2012
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.99 — 42,692 ratings — published 2006
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.03 — 18,968 ratings — published 2007
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,189 ratings — published 1991
Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,349 ratings — published 2009
A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.76 — 4,737 ratings — published 2016
Conspiracies Declassified: The Skeptoid Guide to the Truth Behind the Theories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.56 — 196 ratings — published
The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth About Healthy Eating (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,572 ratings — published 2017
I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,866 ratings — published 2014
Attack of the Theocrats!: How the Religious Right Harms Us All — and What We Can Do About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.88 — 883 ratings — published 2011
Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.14 — 13,843 ratings — published 2014
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.86 — 73,272 ratings — published 2013
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,882 ratings — published 2014
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,660 ratings — published 2005
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,974 ratings — published 2006
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.16 — 194,155 ratings — published 1976
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,173 ratings — published 2010
Bad Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,781 ratings — published 2002
Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,624 ratings — published 2000
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,805 ratings — published 1995
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,239 ratings — published 1997
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.08 — 71,988 ratings — published 2001
The Mismeasure of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,354 ratings — published 1982
Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.68 — 556 ratings — published 1997
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,171 ratings — published 1952
James Randi: Psychic Investigator (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.06 — 63 ratings — published 1991
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,580 ratings — published 2010
Forged: Writing in the Name of God—Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,834 ratings — published 2011
Lying (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,583 ratings — published 2011
God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptic)
avg rating 3.67 — 7,834 ratings — published 2011
“Being a fool the right way means not being the kind of fool who uncritically accepts so-called real-world truths that attempt to explain (away) the inexplicable, while unthinkingly denying huge swaths of data that contradict those very ‘truths.’
The wrong type of fool focuses only on the profound while sweeping the absurd under the rug. The right kind, however, realizes that ‘profound’ and ‘absurd’ don’t exist in isolation but as a meaningful paradox at the center of human experience: the absurdly profound.”
― Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
The wrong type of fool focuses only on the profound while sweeping the absurd under the rug. The right kind, however, realizes that ‘profound’ and ‘absurd’ don’t exist in isolation but as a meaningful paradox at the center of human experience: the absurdly profound.”
― Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early, and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor... We find in the writings of his biographers matter of two distinct descriptions. First, a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstitions, fanaticisms and fabrications... That sect [Jews] had presented for the object of their worship, a being of terrific character, cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust... Jesus had to walk on the perilous confines of reason and religion: and a step to right or left might place him within the gripe of the priests of the superstition, a blood thirsty race, as cruel and remorseless as the being whom they represented as the family God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, and the local God of Israel. They were constantly laying snares, too, to entangle him in the web of the law... That Jesus did not mean to impose himself on mankind as the son of God, physically speaking, I have been convinced by the writings of men more learned than myself in that lore.
[Letter to William Short, 4 August, 1820]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
[Letter to William Short, 4 August, 1820]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
